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Advanced surgical and percutaneous approaches to pulmonary hypertension are undertaken in severe or refractory cases. Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension is a pulmonary vascular disease that can be cured by pulmonary thromboendarterectomy; balloon pulmonary angioplasty is an alternative approach for patients unable to undergo surgery. Atrial septostomy and Potts shunt establish right-to-left shunting to reduce right ventricular overload, although at the expense of hypoxemia. These procedures can bridge a patient to transplantation. Bilateral lung transplantation is the last resort treatment option for patients with pulmonary hypertension, although its use remains limited by a scarcity of suitable donor organs. Ex vivo lung perfusion is a platform for increasing donor lung use by extending the evaluation of marginal donor lungs to establish their suitability for transplant.

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Author

Laura M. Piechura; Daniel E. Rinewalt; Hari R. Mallidi

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)